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Spring Anime 2012 III | AITAKATTA YES!
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hosannainexcelsis
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Shiranpuri
So I watched this in Japanese and it's really good. It follows a schoolboy as he attempts not to get involved with a case of bullying going on in his class. ("Shiranpuri" means "feigning ignorance".) The direction and animation are excellent. The real world is portrayed in a somewhat abstracted style reflecting the characters' feelings, which allows the director to make some creative, meaningful compositions. Quite a few clever tricks are used, such as a moment involving pencil clicking where both sound and visual direction combine to drive home the main character's unease. Another clever trick is in the transition from the first scene to the opening credits, where an umbrella seen from above fades into a monkey face. This face becomes a motif whose meaning you don't realize at first, but becomes apparent as it develops over the course of the story, building up to a particularly powerful use of it in the climatic scene. There's even some energetic action.
The pencil-drawing-like visual style is quite unique and used effectively for storytelling purposes. Its use of shadow and light is particularly noteworthy; there's a memorable moment when
. The subdued color palette allows both the shadow and light and the occasional vivid color, such as red for rage, to have a strong impact.
Definitely a standout from this year's Anime Mirai shorts.
So I watched this in Japanese and it's really good. It follows a schoolboy as he attempts not to get involved with a case of bullying going on in his class. ("Shiranpuri" means "feigning ignorance".) The direction and animation are excellent. The real world is portrayed in a somewhat abstracted style reflecting the characters' feelings, which allows the director to make some creative, meaningful compositions. Quite a few clever tricks are used, such as a moment involving pencil clicking where both sound and visual direction combine to drive home the main character's unease. Another clever trick is in the transition from the first scene to the opening credits, where an umbrella seen from above fades into a monkey face. This face becomes a motif whose meaning you don't realize at first, but becomes apparent as it develops over the course of the story, building up to a particularly powerful use of it in the climatic scene. There's even some energetic action.
The pencil-drawing-like visual style is quite unique and used effectively for storytelling purposes. Its use of shadow and light is particularly noteworthy; there's a memorable moment when
the protagonist stumbles into a scary, looming figure only to have the shadows recede and reveal him as a kindly shopkeeper
Definitely a standout from this year's Anime Mirai shorts.
Basileus777
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Unknown Soldier
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I liked Kara no Kyoukai quite a bit and didn't have any problems ignoring the nonsensical Nasu pseudo-philosophical metaphysical mumbo-jumbo that filled all the non-fighting parts. Besides, I have Rin's angelic voice to keep me company. I-I think I'll be okay! H-Here I go!
Tools for killing being literally portrayed as cute schoolgirls is easily at the top of the list.
Really? I'd say that was even more mild.
Chet Rippo
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Yes, and the Fortune Street thread, and the Kirby thread, and the K-ON! thread, and my avatar, and so forth.
Just was weird to be recognized for it.
Well that's because she's not Urabe.
Who voted on this? I demand a recount! Urabe is #1.
So who's doing the OT for Chitose?
Basileus777
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Hiding the incest and avoiding a thread lock would require a bit of cunning in this case.
hosannainexcelsis
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Chitose doesn't have incest, unless there's more going on beneath that synopsis.
Chet Rippo
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Different show; Chitose is about an elementary school girl trying to sleep with an older man.
firehawk12
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Pff, as if you needed a dvd extra to tell you that.
Mass Effect!Indoctrinated? How so?
Does the manga slow down at this point? I'm assuming Teru will get her due during the finals, so that's fine, but it seems weird that they'd go slow and then go fast again. It makes me wonder if that 3 episode announcement was actually planned or if it was some last minute thing.
They'd have to tie it in somehow!
It took four books to cover adding infinite girls to the guy's harem? Yeesh.
Ginga e Kickoff!! 11
There was some great animation in this episode but I had to roll my eyes a bit at the romanticised spiel given by the ref about about "not playing real football".Reika lying to her mother was gonna backfire sooner or later but still
Yeah, given that soccer is one of the dirtiest games out there, that speech was a bit rich. Maybe in Japan, players aren't taught to dive the moment someone brushes against them! Funny that the father gives him the same speil too.
Speaking of which, I think I have a new pet peeve in anime. This came up in Smile Precure, but here it was just so egregious. If a guy is showing footage from his camera, the animators are NOT allowed to reuse footage from the episode. It makes no sense for him to have either the same camera angles that the audience sees, nor does it make sense for him to have suddenly edited the footage using shots from multiple cameras on his shitty camcorder.
I'm sure it's a money saving thing and they're basically giving the audience what amounts to a flashback, but it just makes no sense in the world of the anime itself. If you want to show a flashback, just cut to a flashback. Why make the flashback diegetic and essentially reveal your money-saving animation techniques?
Yeah, I wasn't sure if this was a case of the source material trying to troll the audience and the director trying to maintain that ending or if the director felt
the need to cap off the series with an emotional ending.
Given that this guy adapted Natsu no Arashi though, I would have hoped that he took some lessons from that show and tried to pull off an ending similar to that one -
where the ending is actually given to the audience early
Still, some lovely symbolic laden shots here:
I particularly liked this cut because of the framing:
Speaking of shots and framing, I suppose they had to put in extra effort in Hyouka because they spend a scene shitting on amateur filmmakers. There were a lot of interesting shots to read, but of course, this one is probably the one that popped out at most people:
Very cute!
Chet Rippo
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Oh, I guess that means it's time for me to go to sleep...
Basileus777
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Like Chet, I confused Chitose with Nakaimo. I guess an OT is a possibility then!
Though it would probably just get locked for pedophilia instead.
Ultimadrago
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Yes, that might be a good idea.
Chet Rippo
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But the boob episode of MGX is calling me!
chickdigger802
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The action in that sword art PV looks great, much better than in the first one.
Too bad it really does seem to be a poor man's .hack, setting and design wise.
It's a shame .hack doesn't have better anime shows, or at least shows with some good action, there's some potential there, but the best stuff is in the games.
.hack//Quantum was great though, more people should give it a shot.
Too bad it really does seem to be a poor man's .hack, setting and design wise.
It's a shame .hack doesn't have better anime shows, or at least shows with some good action, there's some potential there, but the best stuff is in the games.
.hack//Quantum was great though, more people should give it a shot.
thats a big part of it, yes.
Could be mistaken for a Japanese version of Big with the twist that there's also an adult looks like a kid.
A Black Falcon
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True, but it's a great scene, and (for fanservice reasons of course, I'm sure) the whole thing happens in an onsen, too.Pff, as if you needed a dvd extra to tell you that.
I've only played like an hour of Mass Effect, so I still don't really know what you mean.
Actually, the Achiga-hen anime has, as of ep. 11, pretty much caught up to the manga. This match isn't over yet in the Achiga manga...
As for the pacing, it's fairly similar between manga and anime. There are some differences, and the anime expands on some things versus the manga, but apart from that stuff it's fairly similar.
Biyori's a 4koma gag-manga series, as I've said before, and it actually doesn't exist in one point in time -- every chapter stars a different group of Sakiverse characters, and exists... sometime. They vary. Most of the chapters are for the four schools from the first series plus Achiga and some chapters about some of the adult mahjong players (pros/commentators/coaches).
The source material is an incomplete, in-progress manga. The anime got past where the manga currently is somewhere around episode 8 or 9, I believe... or rather, it goes off in a different direction, and doesn't cover everything the manga does, choosing to end with an anime-original arc instead, instead of continuing through the manga and ending with a cliffhanger (as it is ongoing).
Surprisingly good. I went in without knowing much about .hack and came away quite satisfied. Still no interest in watching anything else in the franchise though.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
This wasn't really that bad in terms of the ick factor. MGX still takes the cake, if only because the gimmick isn't really explained in any real manner.
Basileus777
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Did you really want some scientific explanation for how their saliva bond works? Attempting to make sense of that would just be time wasted calling attention to how ridiculous it is.
hosannainexcelsis
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Given that everything else in the franchise is from Bee Train, I can't blame you.
I'd be interested in checking out .hack//Quantum though, if you endorse it.
Ultimadrago
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Space Brothers 13
Don't run with beads.
Don't run with beads.
Midichlorians.
And you don't need to, really.
The most interesting story related stuff happens in the games anyway, and they tend to get a bit repetitive, but are not bad if you're ever in the need for a JRPG fix.
why cant I hold all these beads
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Honestly, I'm not really sure I'm invested enough to care. Either way, as it is presented in the anime, it just feels like a gimmick that goes absolutely nowhere. Certainly they could have went more disgusting and made it another bodily fluid and nothing probably would have changed (except that it probably would have been banned at that point
).chickdigger802
Banned
bwahahaha.
Seriously does the manga go off the rails at some point? Can this show keep up the quality for 50+ eps???
And I might be a weirdo, but for me, space bros > f/z so far.
Ultimadrago
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All women have saliva gear shifts and are utilizing its power in secret.
Bam! Mystery solved.
hosannainexcelsis
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What I've seen of the .hack games makes The World look like the most boring MMO ever. It boggles my mind how something like that would become super-popular.
I think we've all been there though.
I dunno, combat is certainly more involved than Ragnarok Onlines!
I still want a proper The World mmorpg.
A Black Falcon
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The whole series basically centers around Rambaldi stuff, from what I remember... it gets quite weird. I liked the main character and the initial premise, though, and did think was decently good for a while...
There is the occasional Western thing with ninjas and martial artists, but something like that, with an entirely asian-style world, isn't too common.
That is a popular strain of fantasy, that does date from that great Mark Twain book, but lots of fantasy doesn't have modern people in it, and is just in the fantasy world... most of it overall, I think.
But yeah, I love fantasy settings. It's an offshoot for my love for the middle ages, castles were my favorite from when I was little.
I've read lots of fantasy books, and so of course I've at least tried many fantasy animes. Some I do like even despite their parts that completely shatter any pretense of a believable world (see the post you were replying to), too... for instance, never mind the stupid parts, I love the Slayers universe. Great stuff, almost all of it!This is true.
I can't remember if I've actually seen Rookie of the Year... I remember seeing the cover, but I'm not sure if I've actually seen it. I did watch Angels in the Outfield, The Mighty Ducks (all three movies), and such, though, and enjoyed them.
I never have liked Field of Dreams, though. Yeah, I love baseball, it's the one sport I really love, but... I've just never liked that movie much at all. Never managed to finish it, in fact, though I've tried starting it a couple of times.
That's true, it is handy to be able to do that kind of thing easily, I guess, and still have it be a sci-fi show. But still, I don't like conspiracy plots...
They do occasionally do that kind of thing, but it's usually safe stuff, like how in Star Trek Voyager, Paris really likes that holodeck recreation of an old black and white serial, and in some Trek series they regularly watched old cartoons (Looney Tunes style stuff, surely). Actually trying to invent futuristic pop culture? You're right, that's much less common, and for understandable reasons.
I'm sure you're right about that, but once it was, they didn't do anything meaningful to acknowledge it.Of course, I'm sure they also didn't think that the US would be embroiled in a decade long war when they first made the show.
Really? I only watched an episode or two of Atlantis, I wasn't paying much attention to the Stargate franchise by that point. I liked some episodes of it earlier on, but always did prefer stuff like Star Trek or Andromeda... (We need shows like that again, so much...)
That idea would certainly have been a much better show than the one they made, I think.It should have just been about racing. Funny enough though, it has more piracy than Space Pirates.
The stories can get quite intriguing, there's some good stuff happening there.
Granted, I only finished the first game of the first series (Mutation, I might finish all four games someday), and am currently slowly going through the third game of the G.U. trilogy, and the story is actually the only thing that keeps me going.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You know what, now that I think about it, it makes sense if the extra 3 episodes were somewhat last minute - especially if the anime is past the Japanese manga chapters at this point. Perhaps they slowed down thinking that they'd end the series with the episode airing next week.
There needs to be yet another side story. Maybe that guy in Saki can become a good player and then star in the men's tournament.
Well, it ends in a logical place... it's just a very safe one.
It's only women that you have some weird bond with though.
It's father-son emotional porn, so you need to get that hook. lol
Star Trek was bad for this, because everyone in the future only liked stuff that existed before the 20th century. Imagine if all we did was read Shakespeare and listen to 400 year old songs? It makes no sense.
Yep, the idea is that the main character is a bit of a rogue because he went off on his own in Afghanistan.
Everyone's gotta rip off Watchmen/Geass.
They should make an anime based off of EVE, now there's a source of intrigue and drama.
Chet Rippo
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Mysterious Girlfriend X 8
It's a good episode, but not as good as the last one. But man, good stuff!
To get the thought of boobs off his mind, he decides to go look up some porn. Then "randomly" runs into his girlfriend as he "goes home." Of course his problem isn't helped by the fact that Urabe's wearing a very tight sweater, and she actually wants him to grope her. So Tsubaki finally grows a back bone and get's all assertive and makes a move on her, but ends up making her cry, so he becomes jelly and flees the scene. Though we then learn that Urabe is kinky and loves to have her earlobes licked and groped. So everything is still alright on the mysterious love boat.
puff puff =3
It's a good episode, but not as good as the last one. But man, good stuff!
moonspeak
Basileus777
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I really enjoyed Soredemo, should I watch Natsu no Arashi? I hated the two episodes of Arakawa that I watched, is it something I should give a 2nd chance to?
Honestly, I'm not really sure I'm invested enough to care. Either way, as it is presented in the anime, it just feels like a gimmick that goes absolutely nowhere. Certainly they could have went more disgusting and made it another bodily fluid and nothing probably would have changed (except that it probably would have been banned at that point
It saves us the trouble of the misunderstanding episodes. Urabe just sticks her finger into Tsubaki whenever she wants and finds out everything.
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